Who likes military romance?

Jody likes military romance! A reader and blogger (check out Scottish Scribbles) with an intimate familiarity with the armed forces, Jody shares with us what she looks for in a military romance.

I was a Coast Guard wife the first ten years of my marriage from 1973- 1983: duty stations included Milwaukee (Icebreaker), Port Angeles, Washington(Air Station) , San Diego(School), New York City (District Office), Yorktown, Va (OCS), Detroit (Icebreaking Buoy tender), and Seattle (District Office). Many people don’t realize the US Coast Guard is part of the military, the bastard child you know exists but you don’t acknowledge. Katrina and the heroism of the Coasties in saving so many lives made the American people realize that there are heroes at home as well as overseas.

In those ten years, I lived in post housing on a Air National Guard Base in Michigan with 600 families of all branches of the military. I have also lived in Army housing in Washington State, so I have been around a lot of military families. I also did my senior thesis in college (2003) on the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1947 that allowed women to become permanent members of the Armed services.

When I am looking for a military romance, I like to find stories about all the services, not just SEALs. The military mission can be the story or they could just have military service members as the main characters. I look for the author to get the jargon (all the acronyms), the uniforms (not covers), the weapons, the ranks/jobs correct and their missions correct for that branch of the service (they all have different missions).

She writes mostly category romance, but no one has as many military books as she. I think her earlier work is much better, and she can’t get over the fact that Navy Women haven’t been called WAVES since 1973.

RED TAIL(part of Travis trilogy #1)–Coast Guard, and one of only two romances with Coast Guard h/h.

MY favorite books are the WOMEN OF VALOR SERIES, in which three women graduate from Annapolis and are all trying to become Navy pilots.

TO PROTECT AND DEFEND SERIES — The only series where the author was able to incorporate a character from each of the uniformed military services: Army, Navy, Marines, Air force, Coast Guard, Public Health Service,and NOAA. The head of the special project that all are part of is run by an Navy Commander, nary a SEAL in sight but still good reading

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Devon, thanks for including me in the list. A few other military novels I’ve written are:
Double Vision
Double Dare
Smokescreen
(all of the above are connected to Body Double)
And next summer:
Kill Zone